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I'm sure I could produce a map of Rome if I put my mind to it - and I've never been there.He must have done to map it so accurately & to have wrote a letter to John Dee.
I'm sure I could produce a map of Rome if I put my mind to it - and I've never been there.
Well, I haven't got the skill and I've no intention of trying. But I would imagine it's far easier today; seeing as we have computers, the internet, powerful cameras, drones and so on. We have Google earth for a start - you can zoom right in on a location and see streets and so on.What - One so accurate as Mercator's, I don't think so.
But he didn't. Early maps of unvisited parts of the world used guess-work. Do you have any evidence that Mercator did actually go to the North Pole?He must have done to map it so accurately & to have wrote a letter to John Dee.
But the letter doesn't make any mention of him actually having been there, does it?What - One so accurate as Mercator's, I don't think so.
Two pages with fire damage of Mercator's 1577 letter to John Dee. Whole letter at British Museum.
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Letter Dated 1577 from Mercator to John Dee
In the midst of the four countries is a Whirl-pool . . . into which there empty these four indrawing Seas which divide the North. And the water rushes round and descends into the earth just as if one were pouring it through a filter funnel. It is four degrees wide on every side of the Pole, that is to say eight degrees altogether. Except that right under the Pole there lies a bare rock in the midst of the Sea. Its circumference is almost 33 French miles, and it is all of magnetic stone. . . .
Do you have any evidence that Mercator did actually go to the North Pole?
The letter which never says that he went there?Only the letter he wrote to John Dee.
But the letter doesn't make any mention of him actually having been there, does it?
The letter which never says that he went there?
Anyone can write a description of anything; it doesn't mean that they've been to the place or know the person.No, just stating what it was like, how would he know this if he hadn't been there
They were probably good/detailed maps; it doesn't mean he went to the North Pole.why did they carry on using Macators maps up until the 1940's ?
When men got to the North Pole in the 1900's, did they say "Gosh, this is exactly how Mercator described it;
It's not "my nonsense"; it the whole of the Web's "nonsense". National Geographic, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Guinness Book of Records - all lying, I suppose?No because late explores have never been to north pole except for Admiral Byrd & don't give me all this nonsense about, 'but so & so did'.
But does he say in that letter that he had actually been to the North Pole? I couldn't see it if he did.Only the letter he wrote to John Dee.
So you seem quite prepared to believe that Mercator, who lived hundreds of years before the first recorded visit, and never seems to have said that he had been there, visited the North Pole, but you won't accept the accounts of the 20th Century explorers besides Admiral Bird who have been there? It's not nonsense to say people such as Ranulph Fiennes have been there.No because late explores have never been to north pole except for Admiral Byrd & don't give me all this nonsense about, 'but so & so did'.
Maybe you could try to actually read a translation of Mercators letter to Dee. One is easily found using the google link you posted here. Then you will find that Mercator got all of this from two books, Gestae Arthuri and Inventio fortunatae, that he claims to have read but have not since been found. And surely you are aware that geographical knowledge from that time usually was heavily embellished with strange sea monsters, dragons, bigfoots, and other not-so-real information?No, just stating what it was like, how would he know this if he hadn't been there & why did they carry on using Macators maps up until the 1940's ?
Maybe you could try to actually read a translation of Mercators letter to Dee. One is easily found using the google link you posted here. Then you will find that Mercator got all of this from two books, Gestae Arthuri and Inventio fortunatae, that he claims to have read but have not since been found. And surely you are aware that geographical knowledge from that time usually was heavily embellished with strange sea monsters, dragons, bigfoots, and other not-so-real information?
Was the Garden of Eden at the North Pole?Tree Of Life 4 Waters Enoch 26-32 Garden Of Eden At The North Pole Genesis 2:10-14
Was the Garden of Eden at the North Pole ? Where was the Garden of Eden ? Hyperborea is a legendary land in Greek mythology, located to the far north of the known world, beyond the North Wind. This trrumble.com
A river that flowed from Eden was separated into 4 headwaters;
Only for people addicted to conspiracy theories who see them everywhere.So did the North pole now there's a coincidence don't you think ?
Only for people addicted to conspiracy theories who see them everywhere.
The Euphrates is a river that we know, is around today and can be researched.
How long is it? Where does it start and end? How close is it to the North Pole?
Find out the facts, not theories.
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